U2 by colours
I really think U2 is more than a band… They aren’t just musician, since 1980s the Irish group have worked to address issues concerning social injustice.
For this illustration I took more than two hundred lyrics from the band website http://www.u2.com/ and counted all the words. Then I spread all the words over a portrait of Bono. I want to make a little tribute to his various charity and philanthropic campaigns by using the colours of the peace flag randomly in the letters.
The font is one of the most commonly used their cover artworks.
Again “love” in the most used word by far. Take a look at the beginning of the list: love (526),oh (262),like (239),know (236),go (219),come (214),day (174),can (173),see (170),one (149),need (139),want (132),feel (131),heart (129),away (121),get (119),got (117),say (113),walk (112),now (109),take (108),night (107),time (106),man (105),give (96),run (90),back (89),baby (87),make (87),yeah (86),just (82),way (82),look (81),sky (80),thing (78),fall (74),tonight (69),still (68),believe (66),boy (66),light (66),eyes (65),sing (65),sun (63),song (62),turn (62),world (62),girl (61),new (59),around (58),high (58),find (56),hold (56),blue (54),long (51),tell (51),place (50),shadows (50),call (49),face (46),head (46),waiting (46),heartbreak (45),rain (45),room (45),ain’t (44),name (44),shake (44),soul (44),try (44),talk (43),black (42),never (42),nothing (42),god (41),gun (41),happiness (41),last (41),star (41)…
Download PDF: JO-D-110901-Bono01
You can also choose wallpaper resolution: 640×480 800×600 1024×768 1152×864 1280×800 1280×1024 1366×768 1440×900 1600×1200 1680×1050 1856×1392 1920×1080 1920×1440 2048×1536
Another illustration with horizontal text.
Download PDF: JO-D-110901-Bono02
Peace for all… tastes
Speaking of white doves here you have my serie of compositions based on the peace symbol, made up of more than 300 languages. I think I saw something similar on the Internet but can’t remember where.
For the seed image I recreated the symbol in 3D. Then I rendered it in order to have a seed image with some kind of depth sensation.
I made a couple of variations so you can choose. In the first group of images the first ten highest words represents the most spoken languages in the world. In the last ones the languages are sorted alphabetically.
I took the differents peace words from this website: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/pace/
Download vector PDF files:
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-01
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-02
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-03
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-04
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-05
JO-D-100601-Peace-01-01
JO-D-100601-Peace-01-02
JO-D-100601-Peace-01-03
The Dove
Just a quick composition with a white dove.
I like this one, but if you prefer a less abstract version…
Take a closer look.
